Posted on 09/27/2007 2:48:20 PM PDT by Phsstpok
His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush's National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.
By Sidney Blumenthal
Dan Rather's complaint against CBS and Viacom, its parent company, filed in New York state court on Sept. 19 and seeking $70 million in damages for his wrongful dismissal as "CBS Evening News" anchor, has aroused hoots of derision from a host of commentators. They've said that the former anchor is "sad," "pathetic," "a loser," on an "ego" trip and engaged in a mad gesture "no sane person" would do, and that "no one in his right mind would keep insisting that those phony documents are real and that the Bush National Guard story is true."
Once the court accepts his suit, however, launching the adjudication of legal issues such as breach of fiduciary duty and tortious interference with contract, it will set in motion an inexorable mechanism that will grind out answers to other questions as well. Then Rather's suit will become an extraordinary commission of inquiry into a major news organization's intimidation, complicity and corruption under the Bush administration. No congressional committee would be able to penetrate into the sanctum of any news organization to divulge its inner workings. But intent on vindicating his reputation, capable of financing an expensive legal challenge, and armed with the power of subpoena, Rather will charge his attorneys to interrogate news executives and perhaps administration officials under oath on a secret and sordid chapter of the Bush presidency.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 2:14:59 pm PDT
He’s in the bunker with the Russians knocking at the door.
Sidney Blumenthal? I don’t believe a single word that lying scumbag writes, including “the” and “and”?
Again! HE stands by it again and makes news? This time it is real. I promise.....
Dan Rather’s right, I’ve never heard of the “Abu Ghraib abuses”./s
Tin foil hat moron.
Did you know that, according to Sydney Blumenthal in his latest Slate rant, you are a Rove operative?
Here's what LGF highlighted out of this piece:
Within minutes of the conclusion of the broadcast, conservative bloggers launched a counterattack. The chief of these critics was a Republican Party activist in Georgia. Almost certainly, these bloggers, who had been part of meetings or conference calls organized by Karl Rove's political operation, coordinated their actions with Rove's office.
Maybe Rather can enlist Bernard Goldberg as a character witness.
“Rather’s suit will become an extraordinary commission of inquiry into a major news organization’s intimidation, complicity and corruption under the Bush administration.”
Yep. I’m sure that there are scores of liberals at CBS who will be glad to testify that Bush was behind all this. Afterall, Bush is behind everything, isn’t he?
No bias there. At least this is objective and fair reporting about bias in the media.
Oh goody! Let me join right in!!! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!
Sorry the excrement smell is intolerable. bye.
Good Grief!
Because they knew the public would hear the opposite of what they “reported”.
*gasp*
...ahahahahahahahahhaahahahahah
*gasp*
...ahahahahahahahahahah...
What an egotistical, pathological liar.
The Dan Rather lawsuit is nothing more than a shakedown. Rather is threatening to reveal skeleton’s in CBS’ closet in order to get CBS management to cave and settle out of court with a fat payoff.
Blumenthal’s piece reads like a threatening screed written by Rather himself [hmmmmmm].
Whatever.
Odds are, Rather is striking some nerves with the threats of being able to dig deep with legal authority [Mapes is making the same assertions].
So CBS will indeed cave [cuz they probably have quite a few skeletons that Rather is intimately aware of] and Dan Rather will be championed by the left as having been right about the phony documents and heralded as a hero sacrificed on the alter of corporate|Republican dirty tricks.
We’ll be hearing something along those lines for the next twenty years.
And the beat goes on...
Mental illness is a terrible thing.
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